Oesterle Library

📣 Calling all North Central College artists and magic-makers! Our wonderful outreach and engagement librarian, Rebecca Strang, is conjuring up a Trinket Trade Locker right here in Oesterle Library!

📚 It's like a "Little Free Library" for art and small treasures. This whimsical locker is a community space where you can swap tiny delights all year round.

🎨 The locker will launch with a Crow Party this fall, but over the summer we'll be decorating it for its debut! We want YOUR art to help it bloom: donate your handmade stickers to be permanently sealed onto the locker door as a vibrant mural, or bring in small prints (5x7 or smaller) to be displayed on tiny easels for others to admire and take home! We're also collaborating with to decorate the outside of the locker!

🌈 So, whether it's zines, charms, or fandom flair, come leave a piece of your heart in our library so someone else can fall in love with your magic! This fall you'll be able to leave a trinket and take a trinket!

📬 You can drop off your art at the Information Desk in Oesterle Library or you can mail it to:
Oesterle Library - Rebecca Strang
320 E School Street
Naperville, IL 60540

We are SO PROUD of our graduating library student workers! We cannot wait to read your next chapters! ♥️ Congratulations, Cardinals!

Hey, Cardinals! We hope you all get to rest as finals week wraps up! It's pajama day in the Learning Commons, so we're right there with you. 💤

We love connecting with all of our campus partners to bring library services and events to the entire community!

♥️🫂 Thank you to all the student organizations and campus departments who help us spread library joy! 🫂♥️

Some of the groups we've collaborated with:

✨☀️🌈 Share a happy Oesterle Library memory to celebrate National Library Week! 🌈☀️✨

📣 Did you find a crucial resource for a project?
📣 Did you have fun at a library event?
📣 Maybe you picked up some cool library swag?
📣 How have library staff helped you out?
📣 Do you have a favorite study spot in the library?

We'd love to know!

💌✨ Did you know April is National Letter Writing Month? ✨💌

Gather to share stationery supplies, write postcards, create zines, or work on your journal.

Some supplies will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own. ✨

🐌 It’s a place to find a pen-pal for snail mail, or just swap some washi tape and stickers

🗓️ Tue., April 7
⏰ 11:45a - 1:15p
📍 Oesterle LIB 130

If you enjoyed the Valentines card making event, you’ll enjoy this! 😎

Gather to share stationery supplies, write postcards, create zines, or work on your journal.

Some supplies will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own. ✨

🐌 It’s a place to find a pen-pal for snail mail, or just swap some tools for fun use.

(Or just hang out with Rebecca and I... That’s cool too).

⏰: 11:45 - 1:15 P.M
📍 Oesterle LIB130

Help us close the gender gap on Wikipedia! ✨ 📝

Join us for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, feminism, and the arts.

🗓️ March 24th, 11:45-1:15 P.M.
📍 LIB 100, COMPUTER LAB

We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian and reference materials. Participants can use computers in the computer lab or bring their own laptops.

For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support - you can share ideas for entries to update and help us celebrate our progress! 

We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate. 🌎 💞

❕ Please create a Wikipedia account before the event.
here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Main+Page

❔ This edit-a-thon movement is founded by Art+Feminism: https://artandfeminism.org/. Art+Feminism builds a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia.

Back by popular demand—! ✨📕

Join us on…

🗓️ Thursday, 11:45 A.M - 1:15 P.M
📍 Oesterle LIB 200

Learn to carve your very own stamps with our special guest, Michelle Boule-Smith! Librarian, and Oesterle Director!

No experience needed. Tools provided!

We’ll see you there 👀

🧩✨ Grab some friends and join us for a puzzle competition TODAY, on National Puzzle Day! ✨🧩

There are still some team spots open. Teams can be up to four people.

We've got prizes, snacks, and coffee!